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Sony ordered all third party stores to sell it online... there were few that allowed walk ins but not a lot. Some did a lottery system. This never happened before which is harder for everybody to get the thing unless you have a bot that will do the work for you.
In retail store, worst case scenario, you have 500 people waiting in line. But online? You are competing with Thousands if not millions, not just humans but programmed bots as well. Pre order pages were gone in an instant and thats not going to change in the next pre orders, unless Sony allows non online orders.
Sony surely knows there was a big demand for this, more people are at home, ps4 was a big success compare to ps3 but they failed to meet their planned 7 million shipment, so thats another factor.
Sony could have done this 50/50. And i don't think they are only accepting online orders because of covid safety protocols. Or else Sony should have stopped retailers to sell the new Ps5 games without an online pre order as well. Weird how I saw the New ps5 games and DualSense before the actual console. I could buy DualSense any time I want without a pre order.
So unless Sony manages to keep up with the demand, allow retailers to sell this without a pre order then maybe fewer people would buy from scalpers and there won't be a shortage for the rest of 2021.
Also, itshard to be wowed by ps5's record breaking sales when scalpers also earned 43 million by justselling ps5s. It really makes me wonder if scalpers got majority of the supply. And that 43 million was back in December!
Scalpers Rake in $43M by Selling PS5s, New Graphics Cards on eBay
Edit: scalpers earned 27 million with ps5s and 7 million for the ps5 digital version.... and thats just eBay!
In retail store, worst case scenario, you have 500 people waiting in line. But online? You are competing with Thousands if not millions, not just humans but programmed bots as well. Pre order pages were gone in an instant and thats not going to change in the next pre orders, unless Sony allows non online orders.
Sony surely knows there was a big demand for this, more people are at home, ps4 was a big success compare to ps3 but they failed to meet their planned 7 million shipment, so thats another factor.
Sony could have done this 50/50. And i don't think they are only accepting online orders because of covid safety protocols. Or else Sony should have stopped retailers to sell the new Ps5 games without an online pre order as well. Weird how I saw the New ps5 games and DualSense before the actual console. I could buy DualSense any time I want without a pre order.
So unless Sony manages to keep up with the demand, allow retailers to sell this without a pre order then maybe fewer people would buy from scalpers and there won't be a shortage for the rest of 2021.
Also, itshard to be wowed by ps5's record breaking sales when scalpers also earned 43 million by justselling ps5s. It really makes me wonder if scalpers got majority of the supply. And that 43 million was back in December!
Scalpers Rake in $43M by Selling PS5s, New Graphics Cards on eBay
Edit: scalpers earned 27 million with ps5s and 7 million for the ps5 digital version.... and thats just eBay!
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